Design Quotes - Page 29

• Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

  Jonathan Ive

  Made, Inseparable, Objects

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• I'm creative because I did an icon navigation while everyone else on the planet sticks to words? No, it just means I didn't want to stick to convention. If anything you can call it rebellious but certainly not creative.

  Paul Scriven

  Mean, Icons, Creative

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• I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.

  Michael Schwab

  Artist, Drawing, Etch A Sketch

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• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

  Randall Munroe

  Sex, Tangled, Hot

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• It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

  James Victore

  Perfect, Whittling

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• Theory can blind observation.

  Carol Gilligan

  Blind, Theory, Observation

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

  William Bernbach

  Can Do, Ifs

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• The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Holes, Should

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

  Dave Winer

  People, Easier

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• If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

  David Carson

  Use, Information, Architect

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• Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Sheep, Stealing

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• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Understanding

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• Science only answers 'How?'
  Religion only answers 'Why?'
  The two combined is the true design,
  So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

  Amir Mohamed

  Rap, Two, Hip Hop

  Interview with Martin Bauman, www.thecomeupshow.com.

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• Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

  Andy Stanley

  Reality, Needs, Waste

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.74, Multnomah

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• You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Dream, Differences, Presidential

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.1077, Best Books on

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• Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

  Saul Bass

  Creativity, Play, Creative

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• It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Discovery, Chance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.82

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• Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

  Carly Fiorina

  Business, Marketing, Want

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• Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Marketing, Helpful

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• Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?

  John Hockenberry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ethos

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• Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

  FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from Jul 01, 2011

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• A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

  Tim Cook

  Working Together, Collections, Products

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• Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

  Tim Cook

  Self, Kind, Problem

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• We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Focus, Groups

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

  Jonathan Ive

  Greed, Care, Cynicism

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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